The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-04-22

Of Williamsport, Pa This makes in al
ninety per cent paid to the creditors on
claims proved, amounting to $3.50, 34l.
IT was stated at both the State and Navy
Departments that there was no truth in
the dispatch from Key West that Commo-
dore Green, Of the United States steamer
Yantic, officially forbade the English men,
of-war at Port Au Prince to carry out the
threat Of selling Tortugas Island. Score
tary Whitney never heard of such thing
until he saw the dispatch in New York
paper.
FIVE hundred ex-Russian Jews held Q
meeting in New York City the other nigh,
70 protest against the proposed Russo
American treaty. Several nihilists made
speeches.
DURING fire in New York City the other
night two fremen were seriously hurt by Q
fall down an elevator shaft, and two were
rendered unconscious by smoke Eighty
thousand dollars worth Of damage was
done.
TIE demand Of laborers at the rolling
mill of the Pcttsville Pa) Iron and Steel
Company for 10 per cent advance being 70
fused, the men struck. The mill has shut
down indefinitely in consequence, and 100
hands are thrown out of employment.
THE old house of Kirkpatrick, Kinsey E.
Co, tanners, of Philadelphia, has sus-
pended. The liabilities are reported to be
soO0.OOO.
The Pennsylvania House has passed the
Brooks High License bill without amend
ment. 1t provides that the license in cities
OF the first, second and third class shall be
500; in all other cities $500; in boroughs
$50 and in townships s75.
FIRE In the New York State prison at
Sing Sing destroyed the upper part of the
laundry recently. The prisoners behaved
well
THE New York East Methodist conference
has refused to indorse the Prohibition or
any other prrty.
FIVE cattle afflicted with pleuro- pneumo-
MIA were killed on farm near Lancaster,
Pa, the other day.
THE railway time convention of the
United States began in New York City on
the 18th.
THE Bulletin of the American Iron and
Steel Association boldly charges fraudu-
TENT undervaluations of iron and steel i'm
portations, particularly in New York City,
but gives no facts to back its statement
THREE bones, right leg below the knee,
sawed OF were found burned and black
ened in the yard Of Mrs. Wilbur at Fall
River, Mass, the other morning. The bones
were evidently those of a female, and the
pelvis and the size Of the foot indicated a
young woman.
An aged Irishman known as 'sBlind Tom, -
who lost his sight while IN the army and has
been receiving q pension of "a per month,
dropped dead in a New York saloon the
other day on receiving notice from Wash.
ington that he was entitled to d, 0OD arrears
of pension and would hereafter receive $1j
per month.
j. p TAYLOR, aged sixty, his wife and
son, Owen, aged seventeen, were struck
and instantly killed by an Erie train at a
crossing four miles east Of Waverly, N. Y,
on the 18th. Taylor was wealthy farmer.
The accident destroyed the entire family.
The steamer Chandagore, from Mar
settles, France, was ordered to quarantine
at New York recently because of the pres
ence of smallpox. She had 1,25O steerage
passengers.
The Pennsylvania Senate has finally
passed the joint resolution proposing q
woman's suffrage constitutional amend.
ment-yeas, %; nays, 16. The ladies' gal
lery was crowded during the vote.
The Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Works Com.
pany has been awarded the contract for
furnishing l. 400 tons Of steel gun forgings
and $500 tons Of steel armor plates to the
navy at cost of a. 5l2.9SS.
The nou-union longshoremen employed Al
Havemeyer's and Elders sugar houses,
Brooklyn, N. T., struck the other day fol-
the union rate Of wages.
THE Knights oil Labor in the Pittsburgh
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sembly Of iron and steel workers, starting
with twenty local assemblies.
An anti-coercion meeting was held the
ether night by Irishmen and sympathisers
In the Brooklyn Academy Of Music. Ad.
dresses were delivered, letters of regret
were read from Governor Hill and others,
and the usual resolutions passed and ordered
sent to Mr.. Gladstone.
Bishop HARKINs, the Catholic prelate Of
Providence, r. l., was consecrated on the
14th by Archbishop Williams, of Boston.
The Boston Herald states that Mrs. Sarah
+. Howe, of the woman's bank fame, has
absconded with $4,000 Of the depositors'
money.
JAMESTOWN, n. Y, was reported infested
with crooks OF various kinds. Four burg
laries occurred in one night
GEORGE GARDNER, of Acton, Mass, has
failed, with S6O, 900 liabilities and unknown
assets
A LARGE fire was in progress at Kenne-
bunkport, Me-, early on the morning Of the
10Th. Half of the business section of the
town was consumed.
a PARTY OF unknown men raided the Of
ice Of the Opl At Troy, N. Y, the other
morning. The foreman, Carlos B. Conant,
was beat over the head with clubs until he
was unconscious. They pied the type,
dumped the cases and racks, the composing
stones were broken and general chaos Gre
ated. Recently the Osci was noted for its
attacks on the Knights Of Labor.
The New England brick works at Daven-
port, Mass, burned recently. Loss heavy.
THE W0E
IT has been decided to hold the next an
nnal conference Of Latter Day SAINTS (the
Joe Smith branch) at Independence. Mo.
The church was lately in conference 1t
Cleveland, o.
ALL the stove moiders 600 men) en-
ployed at Brands Stove Company's works
and the Milwaukee stove works Of j. q p.
T. Ducher struck 1t Milwaukee on the 18th.
The molders refused to make patterns for
Bridge, Beach & Co, the boycotted St
Louis stove foundry.
CHARLES @. CONLEf, while hunting south
OF Chicago the other day, discovered .
skeleton in broadcloth clothes and Grand
Army SLOUGH hat in = quagmire, where the
unfortunate had been smothered to death
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